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"'V - ? I By SPECTATOR.. — COMMENTS on MEN AND THINGS The program of our national government, so far as throwing money all over the world, has disgusted most of us, I think I recall very clearly that other nations regard us as people with money, hut without culture. We are bombastic 'go-getters, as they see us. - As 1 see it, our plan to lend money is about as bad as the pro gram of giving. Let us consider the most recent Case: Our Vice President Nixon went tOv-'Brazil with seventeen other Americans to attend the inauguration of the new President of Brazil. Seven teen! Why not just Mr.’ Nixon, We already had an .imbassador, a Commercial Attache^ a Consul General and many Consuls — Army, Navy and Air men. So why.all this gush and flamboyant fol-de-rol. Vice President Nixon used the •occasion to tell the President of Brazil t^iat we, the United States, will lend to Brazil an additional thirty five irulhon dollars for the building of a steel plant.. Letts get to rock bottom Why are we lending money to other nations? Is that any proper func tion of the government of the United States? Don’t you think we should collect taxes from our peo ple for the lawiui purposes of government, as', provided in the Constitution.’ Can our government lawfully, constitutionally, give money to other nations, “or lend it? I think we should base our ob jection on the principle of strict Constitutional government, for nowhere does the Constitution empower the Congress or the ex ecutive to give or lend money. In other words, the only legitimate purpose of any tax is to raise money tor the support of the gov- emmen; of the United States and that must be within the United States aid within the powers con ferred by the Constitution It is beside the mark,.I know, but 1 also might say that Brazil is a nation larger than the United States and a country e/iormously wealthy. 1 know; I lived next to Brazil ten years. 1 have no doubt that all the other nations laughed at us for telling the President of Brazil that we shall lend Brazil an additional Uinrty five million dollars' Of course •they will laugh up thew sleeves, secretly, of course, for all the others are ready to receive all that the Yankees will give away. I say “Yankees,’’ meaning all of us, for we Ameri cans are all known as Yankees throughout tihe world. Let me quote a letter from a lady of New Jersey; V “For some time I have been disturbed about the billions of dol lars being poured out for foreign aid, and would like to make a sug gestion. With an election coming up in November, why not put the question of foreign aid on the bal- | lot, !» thet\tke people may ‘ vote I for or against its oontinuance? 1 think the results would astound the politicians who are so free with our money. Surely voting on such an issue is our right since it is our money which is being tossed around the world. I believe the individual taxpayer is 'fed up with the man ner in which our generosity has been received We have poured billions into nearly every country in the world, only to have the peo ple of those countries tell us to go home, laugh at us, accuse us of imperialism and war-mongering, fall for the Soviets. God knows our largness has not made friends for us. Does anyone believe fof one moment that these countries w&uld be so generous to us if our posi tions were reversed? > There is a limit to the number of times one is expected to ‘turn the other check.' The straw that broke this camel’s back was the recent election in France, in which a party running on a pledge of no taxes achieved an amazing popu larity. Imagine the gall of these people even to suggest" cT Tier tax platform while we (who are strug gling under the heaviest tax bur den in years, with no possibility of any substantial reduction in those taxes or in our national debt tor untold future years) must continue to carry them financial ly. f-' . Do you realize how rapidly we could rtjduce our national debt if the money now devoted to foreign aid were applied to the debt? Let’s turn the problem over to the peo ple who are compelled (taxes are certainly not voluntary) to pro vide the wherewithal for the grandiosf schemes still behig hatched b> the politicians. How about the various tax foundations, committees, etc., getting behind a movement to have this extremely important question put directly to the people in November? If jpecial legislation is necessary, let's get busy.” • . . - Doesn't it strike you as utterly ridiculous that we strive and strain to balance the budget, while :hrowing away mure bilticmg^Tfrim were needed to bring the budget in balance? But balancing the budget 4s not everything:^ this country needs a vigorous, rigorous overhauling of the whole scheme of taxation; we have preserved or continued a policy of vindictive, coercive, communistic levies as though the nation despised men ot vision and wisdom and thrift and success and put <a premium on failure or ineptitude or sloth. America was built by men ot vision, men of purpose, men of dedication, thrift and venture; some of them made fortunes and lifted the level of the whole na tion: today we seem to think that do-nothing people are the foun dation of our natjon. Why have we high wages? Why so much more than the people of other countries? Because some men have put their dreams and visions to work and have made oppor tunities for hundreds of -thousa- ands of families to rise from low levels to much higher levels of living. was published in your paper Jan uary 18. - - It seems to me that the proper way to resolve this question is as follows: The purpose qf a Supreme Court is to interpret the Consti tution and the federal laws. This means that its objective is not to write the law, but only to determine what Congress intended the law to mean. Of course, any such court can err in such a de cision. For example, it could decide that a law prescribing that automobiles be driven on the right side of the street really meant the correct side of the street and that local authorities could decide in their own areas which was the correct side. In such a case, if it were really Congress's intention to require that automobiles be driven on the right-hand side of the street in all instances, then Congress should and could promptly amend its law to correct the misinterpreta tion of the court. All of the machinery is available TdT passing any l^ws-'required re-j garding segregation. For some rea- ons or other, the people of this country have not seen fit to re quire that their representatives do anything otr that particular issue. In such a situation, there is no justification for the Supreme Court to* usurp authority and do that which the people have cho sen not to do.” The Illinois writer is im error about the remedy. Since the Su preme Court says that it is inter preting the Fourteenth Amend ment the court would declare the dfvoratory Act of Congress null and void, for being opposed to the J Constitution. The court is clearly wrong in many of its decisions, the basic j error of the court being a disposi- I tion to make laws. A nation at the | mercy of a court is a jieople under the worst despotism and tyrranny possible; it would be much worse than a "rambuntious Congress, for. we can upset the House of Repre sentative every two years; and we can change the complexion of the Senate about every four years. Presidents also can be defeated in four years, but the court holds Office for life and sits in lofty, re mote grandeur, far removed from what it might think "the madding crowd’s ignoble strife.” A letter from Illinois impresses me. Observe, friends, that I am quoting from citizens of New Jer sey and Illinois. You must not think that Northern men and women are foreign to us; they are our owm people and think as we think when they are given the facts. The Illinois letter deals with the Supreme Court Here it is: ‘There seem k> be many con flicting, ideas about the nature of our Supreme Court, as evidenced by a letter from Mr. Pool which Did you know: ‘ In 1942 -we were face<^ with such a critical shortage of copper that we \vere substituting borrow er silver from the treasury vaults. Yet we gave Russia 254,923 tons, costing the American taxpayers $90 million. We gave Russia 192 million dol lars worth of ladies dress goods because Sidney Hillman and Harry Hopkins decided the Russians needed that amount of goods. We put the City of Leningrad on re lief to the tune of R8' million dol lars by what we called 'Ships of Relief.' We shipped by boat $25; million dollars worth of ore pul verizing .and screening machinery, heavy rock crushers, earth-boring and quarrying equipment which was used by the Soviets to dig ore from the captured Czechoslovakian uranium mines. Top officials presented our most guarded secret to them, the Nor- den bombsight We sent them 16,- 000 special anti-air craft planes at $87,500 each.” .This is somewhat nauseating but our nation still has many of those men on the payroll. ' SAY— ASK YOUR DEALER FOR _■* J Cotton Fertilizers t FORTIFIED WITH FTE Fritted Trace Elements TftAOCMAMI A rfo co«r©**V»©« Now you can apply vital manganese and boron* in new, slowly soluble form! FTE (Fritted Tritoe Elements) stays in root zone entire growing season —eliminates usual toxicity hazards—dissolves at controlled rate to give plants essential nutrients when and. as needed. In 37-county test last year, FTE boosted aver age cotton yield $12.00 an acre-more than $10.00 over the extra cost involved. Grow more cotton per acre! Ask your dealer for fertiliser fortified with FTE. *ClenM<m recommends that mangarae and boron be included in all South Carolina cotton fertilizers. T Saw II In THE CHRONICLE* Are All Cold Remedies Alike? No! 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